Painted Maple Bed

This is a bed that was made for my daughter in 2013. The legs, feet, and posts are constructed of maple. The body of the headboard and footboard are 3/4” birch plywood that was leftover from a previous project with some simple beveled maple trim that was made on the table saw. The legs each have three vertical flutes. I was originally going to paint the bed myself, but we found a seller at the Scott Antique market in Atlanta that specializes in antique painted finishes for wood furniture. For what I thought was a really reasonable fee, they took the bed with them to their paint shop up north and returned a month later during the next Scott exhibition with the finished bed. They did a fantastic job. This is my daughter’s first “big girl bed.”

Lanaug, thanks. I used Rockler’s heavy duty wrought steel bed fastener hardware. It gets mortised and screwed into each piece. I’ve used the hardware on a few beds and I really like it because you can dial in the tightness of fit of the side to head and footboards by adjusting the torque on the screws. This allows you to almost friction fit the pieces together if you adjust it accordingly, and this in turn means no twist or movement on the sides.